Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Keep on trekkin'

Kerrie S sent me the following humorous item:

It sent my mind back to the original Star Trek TV series with Captain James Tiberius Kirk, First Officer Spock, Medical Officer "Bones" McCoy . . .

In the beginning was Star Trek, which begat Start Trek: The Next Generation, which begat Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which begat Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Enterprise and a whole lot more including movies and animated shows.

But the original and the best was Star Trek.

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Some Star Trek trivia and humour (some are reposts):

In the hallways of the Enterprise there are tubes marked "GNDN", these initials stand for "goes nowhere does nothing".

One of the most famous lines of Star Trek, "Beam me up, Scotty", actually never happened. Not in any episode or film. There have been lines very similar - "Scotty, beam us up", "Beam me up", "Scotty, beam me up," or "Beam them out of there, Scotty" - but not the exact quote. The closest came during "Star Trek":The Animated Series when Kirk said "Beam us up, Scotty" in Star Trek: The Lorelei Signal (1973).

The series' running "I'm a doctor, not a..." gag originated in the comedy The Kennel Murder Case (1933). The coroner in that film, played by Etienne Giradot, repeatedly claims to be a doctor not a reporter, detective, etc.

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Readers, live long and prosper

(to which the response is "Peace and long life", although it is also okay in Vulcan for the greeting and response to be reversed.)